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		<title>The Avengers, Inflation, And The Box Office Mystery That Haunts Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 02:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Titanic passed Star Wars to become the highest-grossing movie of all time, George Lucas took out an ad in Variety congratulating James Cameron. It&#8217;s a cartoon of all the Star Wars characters sinking into the ocean, which is way funnier depending on your opinion of Episodes I-III. Plus they forgot Lando, the only black character in either movie.* But whatever. The congratulatory ad is apparently a tradition &#8212; Steven Spielberg did the same when Star Wars surpassed Jaws in 1977, then Lucas returned the favor when E.T. topped Star Wars in 1982.** When Avatar defeated Titanic, James Cameron built himself a submarine and descended to the bottom of the ocean. Which apparently was an option? Better than taking out an ad to congratulate himself, I guess. All of which is to say, I saw The Avengers last weekend. As someone whose affection for Joss Whedon exists in a state of irrationality, I was predisposed to like it. More to the point, I wanted it to do well. That feels like a weird thing to want, like rooting for a team&#8217;s revenue rather than the score, but there you go. The movie&#8217;s pretty damn good, which I think is my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Stasis Welcome Packet and Indoctrination Orders: Form XB8-6000 (A Friendly Hello!)</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2012/03/19/welcome-packet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning! Welcome to the future. You, intrepid voyager, have reached your destination. Outside these walls, a world of sights and sounds beyond your imagination awaits. This packet contains everything you need to acclimate to your new surroundings. Please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with its contents. To begin, we acknowledge that you have no idea where you are, what is going on, or why the klaxon in your pod will not stop. Bear with us as we do our best to explain. Everything is fine. At some point between the Years Before Reckoning 2009 and 2016, all people on Earth were instantaneously placed into stasis &#8212; flash frozen, if you will. No record of the event exists, so the exact date is unknown. The human population was then harvested, disinfected, and placed into stasis pods. You have been revived because it is your turn to serve the Yalgrenach. The current date is Year After Reckoning 612. The klaxon is to make sure you woke up. Touch the blue sensor to turn it off. As you read this, automated instruments are performing a series of diagnostics on your physical and cognitive functions. With the exception of the vision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 7 Reasons You Will Absolutely, Positively Click This Link</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2012/01/24/click-this-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Lists are guaranteed to have useful information. Before you clicked this link, you knew there would be seven distinct, interesting pieces of information. How else could we have gotten as far as seven? There was so much to say that we literally had to divide it up and present it in a disposable, easy-to-digest format. Click through to a list, and you get tips on nutrition, dating, which features might be in the next iPhone but probably won&#8217;t, the limit is limitless. Lists provide the knowledge you need to live a better, healthier, sexier life. And better means not only healthier, but sexier. Because of lists. 2. Boredom. Look, we know how it is. Right now, this very second, you need to be doing stuff. Work stuff, school stuff, household stuff, family stuff &#8212; there is a TON of shit waiting, if only you&#8217;d get off the internet and start. And you will! You totally will. It&#8217;s just that &#8230; ugh, GOD, so boring. Boring, boring, boring. But a list you haven&#8217;t read yet? That could be exciting. If you&#8217;re reading a list, you don&#8217;t have to do all your stupid stuff. Isn&#8217;t stuff stupid? So stupid. 3. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HEAR MY VOICE. (If you&#8217;re into that sort of thing.)</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2012/01/04/podcast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I have a couple of friends, and they have a podcast. The friends are Bill Wadman and Dan Gottesman, the podcast is called Circuitous Conversations, and they were kind enough to invite me on the program to do some internet talkin&#8217;. Bill and Dan are both freelance photographers and top tier tech geeks. Bill has a blog called On Taking Pictures, and just got finished a 365 project where he posted a picture a day for 2011 &#8212; including a series of portraits in December that featured me as an Apollo-era mission control tech. The show&#8217;s about an hour long, recorded last night. We ramble on about bananas, digital media, and Henry Winkler. You can listen via the link below, or hit them up on iTunes. Circuitous Conversations #69 &#8211; Chris Keating]]></description>
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		<title>New Year 2012: Completely Accurate Predictions</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2011/12/31/predictions-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analog Nation is pleased to present its 44th annual list of predictions for the coming year. AN readers may safely risk health, safety, and financial security on these forecasts. If we may allow ourselves an uncharacteristic moment of hubris, our predictions are quite simply going to happen and that is that. &#8226; The Republican National Convention in Tampa will be crazyballs, resulting in a nominee who has yet to enter the race. Party leadership will re-stage all 23 debates to include the nominee, all of which will use the obstacle course from G4&#8242;s Ninja Warrior. &#8226; Meanwhile, Occupy Wall Street will swarm the Democratic National Convention. Which is a lucky thing, because otherwise it was going to be way, WAY boring. &#8226; Google will announce a cloud-based voting system, which will be implemented in at least 15 states. Very little possibility of anything going wrong with that. Right? Wait &#8230; right? &#8226; An extraterrestrial civilization will make first contact with Earth, with overtures of peace and mutual prosperity. But it will happen on February 29, so by the time we&#8217;re done explaining the leap year thing, the aliens will be like &#8220;oh, fuck off already&#8221; and never return. &#8226; Michael [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FREE SNUGGLES!*</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2011/12/06/free-snuggles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Offer valid through March 31, 2012. Limit one per household. Recipient must be 18 years of age or older as of December 1, 2011. Free shipping within the United States and Puerto Rico. Flat ground rate of $40.00 applies within Canada and Mexico. International air rates apply in all other territories. Cannot deliver to post office boxes, rural postal routes, or buildings with more than five (5) flights of stairs. No purchase necessary. For a snuggle request form (SRF), submit an SRF request form (SRFRF) electronically via analog-nation.com. By submitting snuggle request form, recipient accepts the terms and conditions of Analog Nation&#8217;s end user license agreement (EULA). Employees of Analog Nation, their families, their pets, and their exes are not eligible for this offer. 5&#162; deposit in ME, NY, MI, WI, KS, AZ, and WA. An authorization fee of $0.34 will be charged to recipient&#8217;s credit card, to be refunded upon completion of transaction. Snuggle may not be transferred, sold, or bartered in any way. If not fully satisfied with snuggle, recipient may return it in its original packaging within ninety (90) days of date shipped. Additional restrictions apply. Analog Nation reserves the right, without notice and in its sole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to the Couple Whose Apartment I Rented on Airbnb Last Weekend</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2011/11/28/airbnb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, we&#8217;re all adults here. Before this gets out of hand, let&#8217;s just agree that a situation developed, a situation involving mistakes. To declare that those mistakes were the fault of one side alone would be folly. There would be no point. The proper course is to own this situation, you and I together. Let&#8217;s have no more finger-pointing. Let&#8217;s have no more cries about, and I&#8217;m quoting here, &#8220;you fucking destroyed our fucking apartment.&#8221; Here are the facts: Approximately ten days ago, I searched Airbnb and found your listing, which offered the use of your apartment on Grand Street, in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan, for $85 per night. The listing stated that the apartment would be available for the duration of Thanksgiving weekend, as you would be, quoting again, &#8220;surviving another roast turkey with the fam in Chicago.&#8221; I booked the apartment, arrived on Wednesday evening, and departed Sunday afternoon. These appear to be the only facts on which we agree. However, because we are are all adults, I will take responsibility for certain aspects of the situation. In return, I only ask that you do the same. Allow me to begin. &#8226; Yes, there was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APPROVED: Let&#8217;s Build A Giant Laser To Tear Apart Outer Space</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2011/11/01/space-laser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Flawless&#8221; is not a word to toss about lightly. That is not to say that we here at Analog Nation are, for want of a better term, perfection snobs. We have no problem enjoying stuff that may have an element of lack to it &#8212; movies, books, sandwiches, whatever. It&#8217;s pretty hard to get things firing on all cylinders, which makes it all the more gratifying when something does. A few examples off the top of my head: &#8226; The &#8220;Timmy O&#8217;Toole&#8221; episode of The Simpsons &#8226; Vince Guaraldi&#8217;s soundtrack to &#8220;A Charlie Brown Christmas&#8221; &#8226; The first half of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay &#8226; Pancakes So when I came across this article while perusing the Internet for photos of kittens napping on large dogs news of the financial situation in Greece, I was gratified. Brother, I was gratified like a son of a bitch. Because this right here? This science article? This science article does not fuck about. It may well be flawless. Have a look at this headline, then tell me with a straight face that journalism is dead: World&#8217;s most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space Will I click that link? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kosher Cops: Defenders of Entenmann</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2011/10/06/kosher-cops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday nights at Brandeis were strange. Come sundown, there was a palpable sense of conflict among some of the freshmen: How seriously should I take the Sabbath situation? These were the in-betweeners. Not the ones from traditional Jewish homes, whose routines were set; not the ones who paid attention only on High Holidays or not at all. The in-betweeners were still figuring their shit out. And I mean, good God, so were we all, but specifically they were figuring their shit out Judaism-wise. They were away from home for the first time, saw the trappings of their more devout classmates, and needed to try them on. So they wouldn&#8217;t turn their lights off. Among the modern interpretations of &#8220;no work on the Sabbath&#8221; is that no electricity should be implemented. Some students used only candlelight after sundown on Friday. For the in-betweeners, this meant they could touch no power switches, but if someone else touched some power switches &#8230; After a few weeks, we knew which ones would ask the Gentiles in the dorm to turn their stuff on and off for them. &#8220;Hey, could you hit play on my stereo real quick?&#8221; they&#8217;d say. &#8220;I just want to listen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part Cat, Part Monkey, Part Jellyfish &#8212; Did I Leave Anything Out?</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2011/09/19/monkey-squidcat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&#8221; -Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008 &#8220;Seriously though, what you guys are doing right now has me tripping balls, and I&#8217;ve only been dead for three years.&#8221; -ibid. Let&#8217;s say we had access to a time-voyage device. If we went back and grabbed Benjamin Franklin, brought him to the present, and showed him the Large Hadron Collider, here&#8217;s how he would most likely react: &#8220;Dancing Jesus, you guys have toilets? That is completely and utterly fantastic.&#8221; The stuff that gets taken for granted is what makes a society&#8217;s tech look like magic. Which is why I saw a headline last week and wondered if I&#8217;d somehow slipped forward in time without noticing. The article described work done by researchers at the Mayo Clinic, who were investigating how genetics could be used to build resistance to HIV. Basically, they took an antiviral gene from rhesus macaques (which Google assures me are a type of monkey) and inserted them into cats. The maquacue macqu monkeys have a natural resistance to immunodeficiency viruses, and the researchers hoped that the cats would likewise develop a resistance to FIV &#8212; the feline equivalent of HIV. &#8220;Monkey-cat&#8221; does not present [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would You Rather: A Series of Hypothetical Conundra for Conversation and Assessment</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2011/08/31/would-you-rather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you rather &#8230; One &#8230; be with someone who is a perfect match for you both physically and emotionally, but who leaves green paint on you (and only you) whenever you touch them, ~or~ &#8230; own a stylish, luxurious car that never needs refueling, but whose stereo only ever plays a running commentary of your life&#8217;s regrets over a slowed-down record of carnival music? Two &#8230; have a weekly billiards game with Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain in a fully stocked bar, but once per evening you would have to watch them suffocate a piglet, ~or~ &#8230; be the first human to walk on Mars after only a week of space travel, but never be allowed to use a towel again for the rest of your life? Three &#8230; be great at any skill for a month at a time, but you could never choose the same skill twice and would always be terrible at bathing yourself, ~or~ &#8230; have a portable button that, when pressed, would make up to five nearby people dance gracefully, with a one in ten thousand chance they would become ravenous zombies? Four &#8230; be able to travel back in time once per year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spaceships, and the Damn Dirty Apes That Fly Them</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2011/07/20/shuttle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hey, you know what would be hilarious? When the space shuttle lands, everyone should be dressed as apes!&#8221; -The entire Internet, July 2011 Over the past week, I&#8217;ve seen the shuttle/apes joke no fewer than five times &#8212; three via Twitter, twice on Reddit. And that&#8217;s just what I&#8217;ve seen. It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m a one-man Google, jotting down every word that happens on the Internet, so there were probably a couple more. Hey, it&#8217;s a perfectly fine joke, and had I thought of it myself I would have tweeted it too. But I didn&#8217;t have to, because every time someone did, the joke was scooped up by tiny hands and pulled into the cloud, seen by thousands of strangers. (Besides, I refuse to believe that NASA landing crews have never pulled this prank on astronauts. It HAS to have happened at some point, right? Since the premiere of Planet of the Apes in February 1968, there have been 149 US astronaut landings. At least one of those missions ended with fake apes. Guaranteed.) Here&#8217;s why I mention the joke thing: No part of this scenario was possible when the space shuttle first launched. The very idea that some guy&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bananas: Now Even Weirder Somehow</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2011/07/06/more-bananas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is calamitous news on the breakfast front, people. Breakfast is sacrosanct here at Analog Nation, so I would not throw around a word like &#8220;calamitous&#8221; lightly. Apparently I&#8217;m fine throwing around &#8220;sacrosanct,&#8221; though. At any rate, the news isn&#8217;t good. Bananas, it seems, are not long for this world. To understand how this came about, we need a bit of agricultural history. A hundred and fifty years ago, bananas were quite different from what’s on kitchen tables today. Oh sure, chimps loved them, and their peels caused &#8230; Wait a minute, wait, wait. Haven&#8217;t I said this before? Seriously, haven&#8217;t I said these exact same words before? Let&#8217;s just assume for a moment that I&#8217;m not imagining the whole thing. So then, what exactly is this new story I saw? Could it be that the plight of the banana has actually managed to get worse? Three years ago, I first heard about the bizarre genetic conundrum facing the banana industry. To wit, all bananas are genetically identical, and are therefore crazy-level susceptible to disease. Which, you&#8217;re never going to believe it, has struck. Multiple times. Unless Science(!) figures something out, our grandchildren may grow up without ever knowing what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Fluffy Midnight: Lessons Learned While Capturing Felis Catus In The Wild</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2011/06/28/fluffy-midnight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEARANCE: Classified OPERATIONAL CODE PHRASE: Fluffy Midnight OBJECTIVE: Live capture of juvenile Felis catus DOSSIER: When Analog Nation moved into a new apartment last summer, one of the key results (along with a shorter commute, and bathroom tile from this century that can actually be cleaned) was a drastically elevated KRS. The KRS scale measures Kitten Readiness State, the degree to which an individual is mentally, emotionally and logistically prepared to get a wee baby kitten. There are five levels: KRS Alpha &#8212; I do not want a kitten at this time. KRS Beta &#8212; I wouldn&#8217;t mind a kitten, but cannot realistically accommodate one. KRS Charlie &#8212; Why can&#8217;t I stop browsing YouTube for kitten videos? KRS Delta &#8212; We need to get a kitten all up in here. KRS Echo &#8212; We need to get a kitten all up in here, stat. My own KRS hovered around Charlie for about five years, ever since Roommate Bob moved to California and thoughtlessly took his cat with him. Now catless, I resolved to get one for myself, then immediately moved into an apartment that didn&#8217;t allow them. Dogs were fine. But the landlord, an ancient Saudi woman who lived on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Media Will Probably Explode My Brain (and other relevant concerns)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 02:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, I remember the first time I ever saw &#8220;Friends.&#8221; My sophomore year of college had just ended. I was sitting at a friend&#8217;s house back home, waiting while he got dressed, or argued with his parents, or cooked up heroin or something. The TV happened to be on, and here was this show I&#8217;d heard about vaguely &#8212; some sitcom that was supposed to be pretty good, finishing its first season. Hardly anyone watched TV in their dorm rooms back then. The fortunate few had one of those little VCR/TV combos, but everyone else had to drag themselves down to the common room and hope the girls weren&#8217;t watching &#8220;Melrose Place.&#8221; Whole swaths of the year would pass without glimpsing television. I&#8217;d come home and all the commercials would be different. I&#8217;m joking about the heroin, by the way. So here were six people, sitting in a cafe, already on their way to becoming famous. Chandler said something Chandlerish. I chuckled. Decent cast, decent show. I wasn&#8217;t one of the viewers who got hooked, but if I happened to be flipping channels at 8:00 on a Thursday, I would watch. That was my entire relationship with it, [...]]]></description>
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